chapter 12
Halo Impact
Leon gritted his teeth at the sensation of being suppressed by the demons and looked around.
The consciousness itself was a dull sensation, as if the eyes were closed or the ears were covered.
The three wizards couldn’t even stand properly in that dizzying sense.
Fortunately, Brahms and Layla looked relatively intact, but it seemed to be the difference between a wizard and a warrior.
They, too, were grimacing as to whether there was any difference in the way their minds were being put under pressure, but the auras that were actively activated inside the body were in tight balance with the demons’ abilities in order not to lose control of the body.
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Judging from that, the demon’s abilities were obvious.
Nullification of mental power.
If you describe your consciousness as dyeing it in darkness, would it suit you?
It borrowed the power of the shadow demon, Silus, and caused a destructive interference with the wizard’s mental wave.
A different ability from erasing light or sound.
It was truly a power that was impossible without God.
Even so, Leon had guessed that the true identity of this “special psychic group” that deals with magical powers was the soul.
In other words, his power was the power to corrupt the soul.
‘I remembered.’
It was over 50 years ago, so it was a memory I had forgotten.
When Leon was 9 years old, it was a rumor that the servants of the family were talking about.
‘Mage Killer.’
Every night when darkness deepens, wizards who have reached the level of 5 circles are found in the streets with their hearts devoured and shattered corpses.
The traces are like a cat killed while playing with a mouse, so it was inevitable that the Parostel family, who ruled the territory, would be highly controversial.
The strangest thing about it wasn’t the brutality.
Investigation by the guard’s coroners revealed that the victim’s cause of death was a heart attack while still alive, not after death.
Obviously, the victims are wizards who have reached a very high level, but they died after being tortured without any plausible resistance.
Like someone who doesn’t know how to use magic at all.
Later, the Parostel family mobilized troops to catch this criminal, and finally, one demon was caught and punished.
However, in the process, many wizards belonging to the Parostel family died, so the nickname given to him was ‘Mage Killer’.
“Sir Brahms! I don’t know why, but the magic isn’t responding!”
Brahms frowned at the words of the flame wizard Blover.
“I don’t think I’m normal either. What about the other wizards?”
“Wow! We too…”
Brahms’ face darkened even more as the wizards swallowed the saliva.
“Lyla! Are you too lazy?”
Lila shook her head at Brahms’ question.
“The Auror’s eruption seems unreasonable, but his body strengthening techniques are fine.”
Apparently, the reason Brahms was better than the wizards was not only because he was the highest among them.
Because Layla was a 5-star uninhabited man and was on the same level as the magicians of the 3rd circle.
Perhaps the reason is that the magician and unmanned mana systems are different.
While wizards generate mental waves through conscious activity acting on the brain, uninhabited men deal with magical powers by generating mental waves through pseudo-actions that flow through the nervous system.
The nerve (神经) means the path through which the spirit (精神) flows, and by training the nervous system, the warriors of this world opened a way for magical power to flow through the body and measured its status.
Although the mage killer was able to counteract the mental waves that radiated out of the body, it seemed that it was unable to interfere with the nerve activity inside the body.
[Is the conversation over?]
At that moment, the demon, the mage killer, who was looking down at Leon and his party, slowly descended the stairs on the podium and asked.
Seeing that, Brahms had no choice but to strengthen his resolve.
“Lyla. That guy takes care of you and I. Can you follow me?”
The magician could not move his magic, so he had to deal with the enemy with only the two of them.
In response to such Brahms’ question, Laila responded with a dagger in both hands.
“You keep treating me like a child, and I’m going to show my skills to the fullest this time.”
At the same time, Brahms, with a faint smile on his lips, suddenly kicked off the floor without any signal and ran out.
Aww!
The floor cracked at the tremendous leg force, and incontinence like a spider’s web stretched out.
The Mage Killer’s mental repression not only blocks the magic of the wizard, but also nullifies the unmanned aura from being ejected outside the body, so all those auras were poured into physical strengthening.
Whoops!
Brahms’s greatsword, which was sprinting at such a great speed, was swung from top to bottom with a force to cut through the sky, but the mage killer lightly caught Brahms’s greatsword with a very thin one-handed sword.
No matter how Brahms is said to be a six-star warrior, there are those who fly above those who jump.
“You boy, you’re 7 adults.”
At Brahms’s self-talk, the mage killer’s lips were torn apart with a smile.
Because of his power, he could not use swordsmanship, but his force was also superior to his opponent.
A light one-handed sword shakes off a heavy one, as if the mage killer’s light hand movements violated the laws of physics.
With him, the sword of the mage killer aimed at Brahms’ heart and stabbed in, but at that moment, Layla intervened and deflected the one-handed sword.
Chaeeng!
If Brahms had mastered the heavy and powerful swordsmanship, Laila was learning the light and fast assassination technique.
Even though the control-type Aurors that freely handle the dagger by floating it in the air were stymied, Layla was still superior to Brahms in its stealth and speed.
However, the swordsmanship of the Mage Killer was balanced in both power and speed, and Laila, who was even inferior to her skill, was unable to completely disperse his power even with two daggers stacked on top of each other.
Layla took advantage of the mage killer’s attack and quickly retreated and threw a dagger.
However, the mage killer simply shook off the daggers with his left hand without a sword, as if chasing a troublesome fly.
If the dagger had an Auror in it, it is possible that no matter how fast the body was strengthened and thrown, an ordinary dagger could not injure the body of the Mage Killer reinforced with Auror.
“Shit!”
Layla clicked her tongue, but it was of great help to Brahms by bringing the mage-killer’s consciousness into the dagger for a brief moment.
Brahms once again swung his bayonet to the mage killer, and Leila stepped on the pillars of the chapel and rushed towards the mage killer like a bouncing rubber ball.
Watching the scene, Leon continued to look for opportunities.
Leon also suffered from the destructive interference of the mental wave emitted by the Mage Killer, but once the cause was identified, it was not difficult to solve the problem.
There is a concept called mana affinity.
It was a concept that could be said to be the realm of talent that provokes a magic response as a measure of how intimately one can feel and handle magic.
The wizard forms a circle in his heart to make magical power his own.
Magic is a substance that acts on mental waves.
The way you react to your magic will change depending on how you treat it, so you create a circle within your body to maximize your control over it.
At this time, depending on how violently the magic responds to the wizard’s will, it is expressed that the mana affinity is high.
However, Leon was an existence that deviated from the stereotypes of such wizards.
When other wizards form a circle in their heart to increase their mana affinity, Leon forms a circle above his head based only on his own theory, but his mana affinity is superior to anyone else.
‘Magic is only material. The ability to deal with it rests solely with my doctor.’
In other words, Leon was a wizard with the deepest understanding of magic in this world.
It draws the overwhelming mana affinity formed by that to one point and forms magical power on the palm of your hand.
The amount of magical power that could move within the sphere of influence of the Mage Killer was insignificant, but that was enough.
Based on that magical power, Leon changed his mental frequency.
The ability of a mage killer is to detect the mental frequency of the opponent and create an interference wavelength that is completely opposite to that to cancel the mental action.
If so, the solution is simple.
You just need to change Leon’s mental frequency so that it does not have a constant value.
Of course, if you use this method, you cannot handle the magic of the circle because it is different from the frequency of the magic that the circle emits, but Leon had a magic method of magic resonance that could change her mental frequency and move the magic around her.
When the very small magical energy gathered on the palm of his hand affected Leon’s mental wave, Leon’s mental power returned.
It was freed from the suppression of the mental wave emitted by the mage killer.
Using all that mental power, Leon re-formed a temporary circle on the palm of his hand.
It soon became intense enough to scatter light due to quantum fluctuations, and reached a point where it could not be hidden.
“No, Sir Leon?”
“How the hell…!”
They were astonished at Leon’s escape from the power of the demon, but there was no time for Leon to solve their questions.
Leon immediately mobilized all the magical energy formed like a ray of light on the palm of his hand to create a magical resonance.
The magical resonance of the heat-up, which Leon learned, generates the temperature of the material in the same way as the dragon’s breath.
Heat is generated by gravitational radiation generated by gravitational waves that warp space-time.
However, when the gravitational wave becomes stronger, it is not enough to simply generate heat.
When the vibration of space becomes greater, the bonds between molecules are broken, the structure of molecules is broken, atoms are decomposed, and the substance itself is destroyed.
The plasma generated by the light ring formed on the palm destroying the molecular structure of the atmosphere was as beautiful as a halo surrounded by aurora, but its substance is the power of destruction that decomposes all substances it touches.
“Woo!”
And this was the most powerful magic that Leon could handle now.
At that moment, nosebleeds poured out of Leon’s nose.
The brain, which is overloaded due to excessive consumption of mental power, secretes various hormones including adrenaline to supply oxygen, dilates blood vessels, increases heart rate, and eventually bursts capillaries.
It was an obvious danger signal from the body to Leon.
Above all, Leon was still in a situation where he was constantly changing his mental frequency to resist the power of the demon.
It’s like riding a fucking roller coaster.
However, Leon calmly raised his finger and aimed at the mage killer, feeling like his head was about to explode.
The mage killer who discovered Leon’s appearance looked astonished, but his actions were being blocked by the two soldiers who had become devastated.
There was already no chance for Brahms and Layla to win.
The power of the Mage Killer was strong enough to overwhelm both of them, and while Leon was preparing his magic, they had already started showing their stamina and aura to the bottom.
However, in response to the astonishing magical reaction felt by Leon’s magic, they were pushing the mage killer with their last strength, ready to die.
[How the hell! This is the realm of the great shadow!]
“Then I guess my magic skills are better than your god.”
Leon once again focused the rotating light wheel at the tip of his finger.
The wheel of light, which gradually narrowed in diameter, soon formed a single point, and at that moment, all the magical power converged at the point caused a huge explosion and extended toward the mage killer.
“Halo Impact.”
The realm of shadows was filled with dazzling light.
After a while, when he recovered his sight from the magic flash, the first thing that caught his eye was the appearance of a demon with half of the crown-shaped horns flying off and one pair of arms evaporated.
It wasn’t normal to see his one arm hanging down and staggering, but it was nonetheless surviving the magic of Leon’s maximum power.
But that was enough.
At first, Leon was aiming for his head, but even if it was difficult, he decided that blowing off the horns would be enough.
If the symbol of the Elyos is a light wheel that rises above its head, the symbol of the demon is the horn that sprouts above its head.
Leon speculated that if the Elyos’s light wheel provided a vast amount of magical power, the demon’s horns act as a kind of antenna that amplifies the mental waves, and the mage killer’s mental suppression ability was derived from the horns.
And Leon’s guess was correct.
“Magic is back!”
The offsetting interference that suppressed the spirits of the wizards was weakened, and the party, who was able to use magic again, raised their magical powers.
Meanwhile, the mage killer was looking at Leon with a look of terror.
[This, this is nonsense. Humans use dragon breath. Are you sure you are a dragon?]
Leon tilted his head for a moment at the misunderstanding, and soon found the reason.
The Halo Impact used to attack the Mage Killer.
Because the origin of that magic was Dragon Breath.
In fact, the only difference is the amount of magic used, but since it is magic that uses the same principle, he had no choice but to mistake Leon’s Halo Impact for Dragon Breath.
In fact, if it wasn’t for the talent of the dragon tribe, he wouldn’t have been able to overcome the power of Silus and develop magic.
However, Leon laughed at the speculation of such a mage killer.
“Is that all you have to say when you are about to die?”
And as if using Leon’s words as a signal, the magic of the party exploded on the mage killer and stopped breathing.
Leon approached the corpse and was able to collect the half-horned horns left on his head and the manastones he felt in his heart.
Its color is dark green.
“It’s a C-grade manastone.”
It was a whopping 20 gold manastone.
“Originally, it is a principle to divide the by-products of boss monsters according to the number of party members…”
Brahms looked around as if asking for the consent of the party, then continued.
“If it weren’t for Sir Leon, we would all have died here. I will hand over all the shares of the demon by-products to Sir Leon.”
Leon could smile brightly at Brahms’ remarks.
However, the settlement of the dungeon did not end there.
Leon soon found a marble hidden in the deepest part of the chapel.
The crystal ball imbued with mysterious magic floated off the ground, and this was the dungeon core that formed and maintained this dungeon.
The moment he reached out his hand and destroyed it, a bright light enveloped Leon.
A familiar phenomenon that has been experienced several times before the return.
When he woke up, Leon was all over the white space.
In front of it is an altar.
However, it was not an altar where humans offered sacrifices to God, but an altar where God rewarded humans.
The heavenly world and the demon world are enemies who cannot live together under the sky.
If you attack the dungeons of the demon realm, the heavens have paid you in this way.
I didn’t have high expectations anyway.
Leon’s past dungeons and the things he got were at most things like a slightly sturdy shield, boots, and a fairly sharp sword.
However,
“This······!”
Leon had no choice but to open his eyes as soon as he checked the objects on the altar.